Catchup: bugs of course, people, and "communication"
Disclaimer: I have no clue what users will make of this post, and developers will probably just ignore me. Anyone who feels inbetween should join bugsquad. And I'm too shy to introduce myself because I'll probably just get flamed or something. Plus I have too many long sentences which border on being run-ons.

So we just had 3 bugdays (ok, one was a krush, where you look for bugs) in a row, which probably burnt out everyone and is why nobody ever blogged about how they went, or even sent anything to the mailing list. We've picked up several new people each time, which is good. You can see the effect its had if you look at the right database query, both konq & amarok have had tons of bugs closed in the past month, with "unassigned" getting some too. In fact, I think amarok dropped several rankings in the "most open bugs" list. If you want to learn how to triage, we're still training. And reports are starting to come in on the new release...

Speaking of which:
If you expect your software to have half of its incoming bug reports be duplicates of one very noticeable bug (or even, heaven forbid, flamewars), especially if its not a bug that is easy to find in bugzilla because of how it is named or something, please tell bugsquad. Send it to our lovely mailing list, as we love it when we get technical help, and everyone reads the mailing list, whereas not everyone pays attention to or is on irc. Sending us a list of canonical bugs would be very nice. (ex. What do we dup all the nVidia bugs against? I expect they'll show up in kwin, plasma, and konq...)

I've had some people ask when the next "People of KDE" interview will go up. Probably by the end of this week. I have several others partly done, and when I finish those, I'll start on round two. ;)

I worry a little about those. Am I contributing to developer-as-celebrity status? Does anyone really care? Do people get fan mail from these things along with their hate mail? Do guys feel different about having fans then women? (Guys: my survey says that being maintainer of something makes you hotter, btw. Does that bother you?) I would babble more about this and tie it into the recent going-ons, but instead let me just remind you that developers are people too. And passionate enough about what they do that they put tons of their spare time into free software, giving up all kinds of other things. Not all of them will be vocal, but they are passionate (mmm, maybe that's why developers are hot?). And I have enough trouble trying to convince people who ought to blog more to blog any. But why should they open themselves up to being flame targets? Especially when writing about what they're doing takes away from actually doing it. And they'd rather code.